By Fakhar Alam
\nAPP
\nPESHAWAR
\nAs the sun rays disappear behind Mahadev mountain peak at Srinagar of Indian Illegally Occupied Jummu and Kashmir (IIOJK), the oppressed Kashmiris are being seen locking doors of houses due to human rights abuses and systematic state terrorism of Indian occupational forces since they invaded the held valley on October 27, 1947.
\nBreaking all records of oppression, rights violation of modern era, the Indian occupational forces unleashed terror in IIOJK after the fascist Modi government revoked its special status on August 5, 2019, forcing most Kashmiris to spend sleepless nights due to indiscriminate firing, cluster ammunition, sniper attacks, excessive use of pellet guns, fake encounters where women and children were being abducted and sexually assaulted as weapon of war.
\nSecretary General, World Kashmir Awareness Forum (WKAF), Dr Ghulam Nabi Fai stated that frustration at India\u2019s intransigence and the world\u2019s hesitation to fulfill its commitment drove the people of Kashmir to be more assertive in their struggle.
\n\u201cIn the past 34 years of struggle, since 1990 alone, Kashmiris\u2019 have suffered loss of more than 100,000 civilians \u2013 men, women and children, and have borne the perpetration of countless atrocities by more than 900,000 Indian military and paramilitary forces concentrated in Kashmir as an army of occupation,\u201d Dr Fai said.
\nHe regretted that the popular revolt in Eastern Europe countries was observed and reported by international media, but the Kashmir issue has remained largely hidden from the world\u2019s view.
\n\u201cThis is the reason that New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has cited that news media in Kashmir is at the brink of extinction,\u201d Dr Fai said.
\nMeanwhile, Senior APHC leader and Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Freedom Party (DFP) Shabbir Ahmed Shah has sought intervention of the world community to prevent the robbing of the people of occupied Jammu and Kashmir of their land, identity and integrity by the Modi-led Indian regime.
\nAmnesty International, in its letter co-signed by six organizations, had recently urged the representatives of G20 member countries on the eve of its summit in New Delhi in September, for the release of jailed human rights defenders and political prisoners.
\nThese organizations included Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances, the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development, CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation, Front Line Defenders and Kashmir Law and Justice Project.
\nThe organizations had urged the G-20 countries, \u201cto raise these issues directly and forthrightly with the government of India in accordance with their obligations under international law and call on India to adhere to its international legal obligations.\u201d
\n\u201cThe voices in this letter resonate with a global call for justice, accountability, and the protection of human dignity in one of the world\u2019s most contested territories,\u201d the letter stated.
\nOrganization of Islamic countries (OIC) has also repeatedly supported Kashmiri people\u2019s struggle and called upon India to give Kashmiris their just right to self-determination.
\nAccording to Kashmir Media Service, Shah stated, \u201cCoercion, intimidation and harassment of political activists, journalists, rights groups and civil society activists, has been a hallmark of the Modi government\u2019s Kashmir policy.\u201d
\nMushtaq Ahmed Shah, Voice Chairman, Jummu and Kashmir\u2019s Peoples League told APP that most of oppressed Kashmiris in IIOJK were either being attacked or kidnapped after Indian forces resorted to serious human rights abuses mostly against women and children as weapon of war after Hinduvata BJP regime had abolished special status of IIOJK.
\nAccompanied by sniffer dogs, Indian occupied forces forcefully entered the houses of Kashmiris even at mid night on the name of so-called search operation and misbehaved with women and children that made Kashmiris almost sleepless.
\n\u201cThe 43 page report of the Office of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) 2019 had exposed Indian security forces\u2019 systematic terrorism and war crimes at IIOJK,\u201d said Mushtaq Ahmad Shah.
\nThe report had testified that Indian occupied forces had used excessive force and pellet guns against peaceful Kashmiris in 2016, resulting in deaths and injuries of a large number of civilians which was a clear violation of UN Basic Principles on Use of Force and Firearms by Law Enforcement Officials, he said.
\nGreat Hurriyat leader, Muhammad Yasin Malik was jailed for life in a fake case in a bid to silence his strong voice for Kashmir\u2019s freedom and terrorize other Kashmir leadership.
\nThe brutal killing of freedom fighter Burhan Wani and other Kashmiris leadership in a fake encounter besides issuances of over six million illegal domicile certificates of IIOJK to Hindus had exposed the anti-Kashmir\u2019s policies of the Hinduvata\u2019s regime.
\nHe said the gruesome violation of human rights including the forced disappearance of over 8,000 innocent Kashmiris, 8,652 unmarked mass graves, imposition of longest curfew on some 10 million unarmed Kashmiris, extra-judicial killings and human rights abuses especially against women and children exposed India\u2019s ugly secular face before the world.
\nAdnan Sarwar Khan, former Chairman, International Relations Department, University of Peshawar said the illegal occupation of Kashmir valley by India had contravened multiple articles of the 30 fundamental human rights of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) drafted by representatives from all the regions of the world including India on December 10, 1948 and subsequently was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).
\nHe said this declaration was applied to all the signatory members of the UN including India and restrained them from all kinds of abuses, exploitation, maltreatment and violence besides violation of any fundamental rights protected in the UDHR.
\nThey experts said that four wars were fought on Kashmir dispute and another war would be disastrous between nuclear armed neighboring countries for the peace and stability of the region.
\nThey urged UNO to come forward and implement its resolutions on Kashmir for lasting peace and stability in south asia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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